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ATCHISON,  TOPEKA  AND 
SANTA  FE  RAILWAY 


PETRIFIED  FOREST 
ARIZONA 


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LIIRARY 


University  of  California  •  Berkeley 


Santa  fe 


The   Petrified   Forest 
of  Arizona 

STOP-OVER  of  one  to  two 
days  at  Adamana,  on  the 
Santa  Fe  Line,  in  Arizona, 
will  permit  the  traveler  to 
view  one  of  the  few  natural 
wonders  that  "comes  up  to 
its  brag."  In  this  category 
is  the  Petrified  Forest.  As 
the  Grand  Canyon  of  Arizona  surpasses  in 
extent  and  grandeur  all  other  canyons  in  the 
world,  so  the  Petrified  Forest  of  Arizona 
transcends  in  variety  of  coloring  and  in  extent 
all  other  similar  deposits  in  the  world. 

Silicified  wood  is  found  on  the  East  Fork 
of  the  Yellowstone  and  on  the  high  plateaus 
of  southern  Utah.  Small  segments  of  trees 
(chips  of  the  ancient  blocks)  are  scattered 
throughout  northern  Arizona.  But,  as  if 
laid  bare  for  the  delight  of  the  tourist  and 
the  research  of  the  scientist,  there  are  huddled 
together  in  Apache  County,  Arizona,  vast 
deposits  of  petrified  wood,  from  the  size  of  a 
toy  marble  to  trees  more  than  two  hundred 
feet  in  length.  It  would  be  more  frequently 
visited  if  the  traveling  public  were  better 
acquainted  with  the  facilities  for  getting  there. 
The  Forest  covers  many  thousands  of  acres, 
in  five  separate  tracts,  all  easily  accessible 
from  Adamana.  The  Third  Forest  is  also 
reached  from  Holbrook. 


Ample      Accommodation  » 


Hotel  Accommodations  at  Adamana 


Third  Forest    the   Largest 


The  First  Forest,  noted  for  its  bright  colors, 
is  distant  about  six  miles  from  Adamana 
(altitude,  5,277  feet).  It  is  easily  reached  in 
an  hour  and  a  half.  The  journey  may  be 
made  in  a  leisurely  fashion,  starting  late  in 
the  morning  and  returning  at  dusk,  with  an 
hour  en  route  for  inspection  of  the  Hieroglyphic 
Rocks  and  Aztec  Ruins,  and  plenty  of  time  to 
see  the  Second  Forest,  too.  The  chief  object 
of  interest  is  the  Natural  Log  Bridge,  which 
spans  a  chasm  sixty  feet  wide  —  a  trunk  of 
jasper  and  agate  overhanging  a  tree-fringed 
pool.  The  Eagle's  Nest,  Snow  Lady  and 
Dewey's  Cannon  are  in  this  locality. 

The  Second  Forest  is  two  and  one-half 
miles  due  south  of  the  first  one,  the  trip 
requiring  thirty  minutes  each  way.  It  con- 
tains about  two  thousand  acres.  The  trees 
are  mostly  intact,  large,  and  many  of  them 
highly-colored.  The  Twin  Sisters  are  an 
interesting  sight  here. 

The  Third  Forest  covers  a  greater  area 
than  the  others.  It  lies  thirteen  miles  south- 
west of  Adamana  and  eighteen  miles  southeast 
of  Holbrook.  This  district  contains  several 
hundred  whole  trees,  some  of  them  more 
than  two  hundred  feet  long,  partly  imbedded 
in  the  earth.  These  huge  unshattered  blocks 
of  agate  are  magnificent  specimens.  The  colors 
are  very  striking,  comprising  every  tint  of 
the  rainbow.  The  local  name  of  "Rainbow" 
Forest  is  therefore  very  appropriate. 


Unthatter ed  B lockt  of  Agate 


Hotel  Brunswick.  Holbrook 


A   Final  Snap  Snot,  Second  Foreit 


The    North   Sigillaria    Forest 


Many     of    these    are    Seen 


The  Blue  Forest  (smallest  of  the  five)  is 
seven  miles  east  of  Adamana,  being  one  of 
the  two  districts  discovered  by  John  Muir. 
It  is  noted  for  the  blue  tints  of  its  trees. 

The  North  Sigillaria  Forest,  a  new  "find," 
is  nine  miles  north  from  Adamana,  and  con- 
tains many  finely  preserved  specimens  of  the 
carboniferous  period,  some  of  the  stumps  still 
standing  as  they  grew.  This  Forest  is  located 
on  the  bottom  and  sides  of  a  shallow,  wide 
canyon,  with  buttes  and  mesas  of  different 
colored  clays  and  rocks.  One  fallen  monarch 
is  1 47  feet  long.  A  wide  view  of  the  Painted 
Desert  may  be  had  here.  On  the  way  an 
Indian  ruin  is  passed,  two  miles  out. 

The  round  trip  from  Adamana  to  either 
of  the  two  Forests  last  named  requires  about 
four  hours'  time,  though  if  one  is  in  a 
hurry,  all  the  Forests  except  the  Third  may 
be  visited  by  auto  in  one  day. 

Except  the  small  hotel,  railway  station  and 
store  there  are  few  buildings  at  Adamana. 
Mr.  Chester  B.  Campbell  has  charge  of  the 
hotel  and  livery  accommodations.  The  hotel 
has  sanitary  plumbing,  with  hot  and  cold 
water.  Board  and  lodging  may  be  had  at 
$2.50  a  day.  Thirty-five  guests  can  be 
accommodated  here  with  rooms  and  meals' 
in  summer  tents  also  are  provided  for  guests. 

The  round-trip  fare  to  the  First  and 
Second  Forests  and  Natural  Bridge  is  $5.00 
for  one  person,  $3.00  each  for  two  persons, 


Broken  Sections  of  Tree   Trunks 


Information  About   the   Cost 


and  $2.50  each  for  three  or  more.  The  trip 
requires  one  day's  time  and  the  choice  of 
automobile  or  team  is  optional;  the  price  is 
the  same. 

To  the  Third,  Blue,  or  North  Sigillaria 
Forests  and  Painted  Desert  the  fare  is  the 
same  as  to  the  First  and  Second  Forests. 

To  the  Hieroglyphics  and  Aztec  Ruins  the 
fare  is  $1 .00  for  one  person,  75  cents  each  for 
two  and  50  cents  each  for  three  or  more. 
Special  arrangements  can  be  made  to  include 
these  points  in  the  trip  to  the  First  and 
Second  Forests. 

Teams  or  autos  are  provided  for  a  hundred 
persons.  Notice  in  advance  to  Mr.  Chester  B. 
Campbell  at  Adamana,  owner  of  livery,  will 
insure  the  proper  handling  of  large  excursion 
parties.  New  equipment  this  season. 

Mr.  Campbell  also  equips  camping  parties 
for  the  Hopi  and  Navajo  Indian  Reservations, 
and  for  a  few  days'  trip  into  the  Painted  Desert. 

Holbrook  has  satisfactory  hotel  accommo- 
dations. Rooms  may  be  obtained  at  $1.00 
per  day,  and  meals  at  50  cents  each. 

Livery  is  furnished  by  S.  D.  Smith. 

The  Ford  Garage  and  Northern  Arizona 
Transportation  Co.  operate  auto  lines. 

Round  trip  to  Third  Forest  requires  about 
half  a  day.  En  route  are  prehistoric  ruins  and 
hieroglyphics.  The  cost  of  the  trip  by  auto,  out 
and  back,  is  $10.00  for  one  to  three  persons, 
and  $2.50  for  each  additional  passenger. 


The     Ride     Described 


Wagon  fares  are  on  a  reasonable  basis. 
Fifty  cents  extra  per  passenger  is  charged 
for  the  Cliff  Dwellings  and  Hieroglyphics, 
if  visited  on  the  way  to  the  Third  Forest. 

The  Petrified  Forest  may  be  visited  any 
day  in  the  year,  except  when  high  water 
renders  the  streams  temporarily  impassable. 

Leaving  the  steel  highway  of  the  Santa  Fe, 
it  is  a  southerly  journey  across  arid  mesas  on 
a  smooth  road,  full  in  the  glowing  Arizona 
sunshine.  The  four-horse,  twelve-passenger 
coach  or  auto  is  easy  to  ride  in.  The  route 
is  along  a  natural  highway,  in  places  hard- 
packed  by  vagrant  winds  and  frequent  travel. 
No  grass,  except  stray  tufts  overlooked  by 
foraging  sheep.  No  human  habitations,  far 
as  the  eye  can  reach.  Just  rocks,  and  sand, 
and  sky,  with  an  occasional  prehistoric  Indian 
village  ruin,  or  lava  fragments  belched 
centuries  ago  from  now  extinct  volcanoes. 

Both  Adamana  and  Holbrook  are  con- 
tiguous to  the  Navajo  Indian  reservation. 
Holbrook  is  an  outfitting  point  for  the 
Apache  country.  A  stage  leaves  daily  for 
the  White  Mountain  reservation,  where  lies 
Fort  Apache,  in  the  midst  of  picturesque 
mountain  scenery.  The  unique  villages  of 
the  Hopi  Indians  are  situated  about  eighty 
miles  north.  En  route  to  Hopiland  you  cross 
the  Painted  Desert,  where  live  the  Navajos. 

Stop-overs  are  allowed  at  both  Adamana 
and  Holbrook,  not  to  exceed  ten  days,  on  all 


Liberal  Stop-over   Privilege* 

one-way,  first  and  second-class  tickets,  also  on 
round-trip  tickets  within  their  limits. 

Stop-overs  are  also  allowed  on  Pullman 
tickets,  except  that  reservations  cannot  be 
made  on  the  California  Limited  to  or  from 
Holbrook. 

To  obtain  stop-overs  on  one-way  railroad 
tickets,  notify  train  conductor  and  deposit 
tickets  with  Agent  immediately  after  arrival; 
on  round-trip  tickets  notify  train  conductor. 

To  obtain  stop-over  on  Pullman  tickets, 
when  authorized,  notify  Pullman  Conductor. 

Visitors  to  the  Columbian  Exposition  mar- 
veled at  the  polished  slabs  and  huge  trunks 
of  agatized  trees,  little  thinking  them  to  be 
trees  turned  into  stone.  At  Tiffany's,  in 
New  York,  may  be  seen  a  huge  slab  of 
petrified  wood  which  has  been  subjected  to 
the  art  of  the  lapidary.  Most  persons  think 
it  is  polished  marble  or  onyx.  Few  realize 
that  it  is  a  slice  of  a  giant  tree  that  was  one 
of  a  prehistoric  forest  in  a  section  of  our 
country,  2,500  miles  from  the  metropolis. 
And  how  few  Americans  have  ever  actually 
walked  in  this  dead  and  buried  forest  that 
through  the  uncounted  years  has  been  giving 
up  its  dead!  Wind  and  rain  and  whirling 
sand  all  have  combined  to  lay  bare  this 
treasure  house  of  the  past,  for  such  it  really 
is.  So  one  may  now  wander  for  days  in 
aisles  that  were  once  cool  and  green,  but  now 
bare  and  white. 


The    Most     Unique    Sight 


Like     Polished     Onyx 

What  human  interest  attaches  to  every 
foot  of  the  ground!  What  race  of  men  knew 
the  living  forest!  What  birds  sang  in  its 
swaying  boughs!  What  creatures  browsed 
beneath  its  protecting  arms!  What  shock  of 
earth  brought  low  these  monarchs,  stately 
pine  and  giant  oak!  Were  they  petrified 
where  they  fell,  or  did  they  float  out  on  the 
tide  of  a  forgotten  sea?  A  thousand  questions 
press  in  upon  the  tourist  as  he  views  these 
relics  of  another  age. 

It  is  truly  God's  Acre,  but  lacking  the 
shrouds,  for  the  ancient  trees  live  again  in 
adamant  and  agate  of  every  conceivable  color. 
Approaching  the  deposits  from  Adamana  or 
Holbrook,  you  are  quickly  attracted  by 
stray  bits  of  petrified  wood  that  glisten  like 
jewels  by  the  roadside.  You  soon  espy 
larger  and  larger  blocks,  then  trunks  of  trees, 
then  complete  trees,  some  more  than  two 
hundred  feet  long,  tumbled  about  in  con- 
fusion or  lying  just  as  they  were  bared  by 
the  action  of  the  elements.  There  seems 
to  be  no  limit  to  the  deposits— literally 
thousands  of  acres  and  millions  of  tons. 

Let  no  one  expect  to  see  the  trees  standing 
upright.  They  are  prone  upon  the  ground, 
in  a  vast  basin,  which  was  once  the  bed  of 
an  ancient  sea.  Many  of  these  stone  trees 
are  partly  covered  with  earth,  but  retain 
their  bark,  sometimes  even  the  heart,  and 
the  cross-sections  plainly  show  how  old  they 


Odd      Rock      Formations 


Endless   Variety  and  Charm 

are.  Even  so,  the  scene  presents  endless 
variety  and  charm,  not  the  least  of  which  is 
the  setting  of  surrounding  cliffs,  often  rising 
one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  height,  and  cut 
up  into  ravines  and  sloping  mesas,  variegated 
with  shale,  clay  and  sandstone — faintly 
suggesting  the  Painted  Desert— and  in  that 
frame  of  earth  may  be  seen  trunks  of  trees 
and  huge  blocks  of  petrified  wood  set  like 
garnets. 

To  one  who  can  spare  the  time  for  research 
there  is  ample  reward  for  further  investiga- 
tion. Among  the  neighboring  cliff  ruins  have 
been  discovered  proofs  that  no  less  than  four 
different  Indian  stocks  have  lived  here — one 
probably  related  to  the  present  Hopi  (Moki), 
another  to  the  Zuni,  the  other  two  unknown.' 
The  ethnologist  differentiates  by  means  of 
pottery,  especially  that  which  is  symbolic  in 
character.  Here  potsherds  are  scattered  far 
and  wide,  revealing  the  fact  that  villages  of 
these  ancient  races  were  once  spread  over 
this  whole  region.  One  may  here  profitably 
spend  a  week  in  delving  after  antiques.  ( 

It  is  truly  marvelous  to  look  upon  millions 
of  tons  of  glistening  petrified  trees.  On  some 
of  the  slopes,  where  they  lie  tumbled  together, 
it  is  as  if  whole  quarries  of  marble  and  onyx 
had  been  dynamited.  And  so  varied  and 
bright  are  the  colors,  it  is  as  if  rainbows  had 
become  entangled  and  conducted  to  remain 
on  earth. 


One   of    Many  Fallen   Giants 


The  Prime   Mystery  in  Geology 

A  FOREST  GONE  TO  BED 

[Condensation  of  an  article  by  MR.  CHARLES  F.  LUMMIS. 
published  in  West  Coast  Magazine,  January,  1912. j 

Of  all  the  Southwestern  Wonderland— the 
most  concentrated  area  on  earth  of  earth  s 
greatest  natural  marvels— the  Petrified  Forest 
is  the  most  puzzling.  One  guess  may  be  as 
good  as  another.  The  greatest  geologists, 
the  greatest  botanists,  have  bumped  their 
inconclusive  heads  against  it  in  vain.  Even 
Muir.  the  very  Brother  of  the  Trees,  has  to 
pull  in  his  horns.  It  is  the  Prime  Mystery 
in  Geology— the  hardest  nut,  and  the  hardest 
wood,  in  the  world. 

These  vast  logs  are  not  huddled  nor  criss- 
crossed, as  of  a  freshet  or  a  jam,  but  fallen 
orderly  as  God  gave  them  to  grow.  They 
are  where  they  grew— but  half  a  mile  or  so 
lower,  with  the  under  waste  of  the  earth- 
tissues  that  gave  them  root. 

Conceive  a  woodland  beside  which  the 
tallest  groves  of  Maine  or  Tennessee  would 
be  underbrush.  Mostly  conifers,  but  with 
some  willows,  cottonwoods  or  other  equiva- 
lent deciduous  trees. 

This  forest  comes  to  prime — at  least,  we 
have  trees  of  it  which  stood  240  feet  in 
height,  measured  "for  keeps"  in  eternal  stone. 
Something  lays  this  forest  low— "maybe  a 
cyclone,  maybe  a  freshet,  maybe  a  submer- 
gence." We  have  no  data  beyond  the  fact  of 
the  recumbent  giants.  All  that  is  sure  is  that 


Section*    of   Massive    Logs 


Embalmed  to  Perennial  Gem» 


they  fell  fair  where  they  stood— and  are  there 
a  few  million  years  later.  They  have  not 
drifted  or  shifted.  Then  subsidence — either 
under  the  immemorial  ocean  or  at  least 
under  the  inland  sea  whose  shores  are  still 
marked  on  the  peaks  and  rims  of  the 
Mogollon  Plateau— a  little  lake  about  300 
by  200  miles.  It  was  unquestionably  a  warm 
sea.  The  hundreds  of  volcanic  cones,  the 
mineral  springs  that  still  persist,  show  that 
here  was  a  colossal  pickling-plant. 

Pressure  is  the  first  mechanics  of  preser- 
vation. The  pneumatic  force  used  to  tuck 
creosote  into  every  sap-cell  of  a  bull-pine 
sleeper  would  be  as  a  lover's  pinch  compared 
to  the  incalculable  squeeze  that  translated 
these  million  cords  of  trunk  from  burnable 
firewood  to  an  adamant  which  the  patient 
combustion  of  Time  cannot  even  char. 

Prostrated  in  full  vigor  by  some  resistless 
force— not  a  cyclone,  or  they  would  show  the 
tangled  windfall;  not  an  avalanche  of  water, 
or  they  would  be  similarly  huddled— these 
great  trees  laid  them  down  orderly,  their 
heads  generally  to  the  South.  I  can  conceive 
of  but  one  power  that  can  have  mowed  them 
down  so  marshalled— an  earthquake  of  the 
first  dimensions,  traveling  from  the  Crest  of 
the  Continent  southerly. 

Anyhow,  the  trees  went  down.  They  were 
embalmed  to  perennial  gems  after  they  fell. 
They  are  cross-cut  and  dismembered  by  later 


Among     the     "Bad    Land*' 


A    Guess    at    the    Process 

shocks  or  frosts;  then  branches  shorn  and 
comminuted     to     litter    the     ground    with 
kaleidoscopic    chips.    Even    when    the   hill 
stature  of  the  200-foot  tree  is  measureable 
upon  the  ground,  it  is  rare  to  find  twenty  feet 
in  a  piece.   The  fracture  is  an  almost  perfect 
cross-section;  but  nothing  in  human  know- 
ledge is  more  obvious  than  that  these  breaks 
were  subsequent  to  the  utter  fossilization  of 
the  trunks.     Anything  retaining  the  merest 
vestige  of  ligneous  fibre  could  no  more  break 
thus  than  a  live  hen  could  be  cracked  over 
your  knee  to  a  perfect  cross-section— includ- 
ing the  very  halves  of  the  feathers.    Equally 
the  matched  ends  between  fractures  prove 
absolute  continuity  in  the  process  of  agatizmg. 
Somewhere  during  the  stupendous  subsi- 
dences  of    the    Jurassic   period    this   prone 
mesozoic  forest  sank  to  where  the  vast  later 
sediments  of  the  Cretaceon  era  could  wash 
down   upon   it,    mile-deep.     In   these   deep 
bowels  of  the  earth,  the  springs  of  sulphur, 
iron,  copper,  salt;  the  paste  of  chalcedony, 
the  solutions  of  silica  still  rumbled;  and  the 
pressure   that   would   break   the   ribs   of   a 
Dreadnought  as  an  elephant  might  efface  a 
gnat,    injected    these    mineral    waters    into 
every  fibre  of  the  one-time  wood.    Of  course 
it  went  slowly— the  pressure  increasing  only 
as  the  trunk  hardened  to  resist.    Else  we 
should  have  nine-foot  trees  "pressed"  in  the 
geologic  book  as  flat  as  we  press  a  flower  in 


The    Wonderful  Second  Fore»t 


Examples  of  Picture   Writing 


Aztec  Hieroglyphics  near  Adamana 


More  Aztec  Hieroglyphic 


It    it    all     Your*     Today 

the  family  Bible.  The  mineralization  must 
have -been  contemporaneous  with  the  first 
coverlet  of  sediment— or  ahead  of  it.  No 
mere  wooden  tree  could  have  withstood  the 
impact  of  two  miles  of  perpendicular  stone 
to  the  square  inch. 

And  then  what  we  are  pleased  to  call  the 
Tertiary  Age;  and  the  vast  emergence  of 
sunken  water-logged  continents  to  God's  for- 
gotten sunlight — by  an  upheaval  so  judicious 
and  so  balanced  that  it  did  not  ruffle  the 
sedimentary  blankets— nor  the  sheets  nor 
other  bedclothes — of  a  sleeping  world.  And 
the  forgotten  Forest  came  up  to  the  top  of 
the  continent  again,  then  cuddled  under  a 
mile  or  so  of  cretaceous  counterpanes.  Even 
now  it  is  a  mile  above  the  sea. 

And  the  erosions  and  corrosions  of  aeons, 
the  moths  of  geology,  began  to  eat  the  bed- 
clothes; and  blanket  after  blanket  traveled 
away  by  grains  of  sand  to  fill  the  womb  of 
the  far  Pacific  with  the  embryo  of  continents 
yet  unguessed.  Strata  by  the  thousand  feet 
were  devoured  away  by  that  slow,  implacable 
tooth.  And  in  the  fullness  of  the  ages  the 
immortal  Forest  came  back  to  the  sunlight, 
where  once  its  myriad  leaves  danced  and 
breathed  a  mortal  air — the  same  fierce 
Arizona  sun  under  which  it  dazzles  our  eyes 
to-day. 

To-day  this  is  all  Yours.  You  sleep  on  a 
Santa  Fe  Pullman  till  time  to  get  up.  You 


Chip*   of  a    Petrified    Rainbow 


transfer  to  a  comfy  hotel;  and  are  shown 
these  pages  of  the  Past,  with  such  commen- 
tary as  the  world's  greatest  geologists  have 
been  able  to  supply.  And  the  documents 
are  there — plainer  than  anything. 

You  can  photograph  yourself  on  "The 
Bridge"  of  a  150-foot  fossil  tree  across  an 
arroyo,  or  on  the  thicker  trunks  athwart 
the  clay -mounds:  or  under  the  cannon-like 
sections  mounted  on  carriages  of  crumbling 
shale. 

But  you  can  carry  away — and  without 
sagging  your  suitcase — a  million  tons  of 
memories.  You  never  saw  such  logs  before, 
nor  such  chips,  nor  a  footing  so  studded  with 
iridescence;  and  you'll  remember  it  as  one 
of  the  greatest  experiences  of  life,  no  matter 
how  traveled.  The  Forest  doesn't  need  you 
or  me.  Its  wonder-mosaics  have  flashed 
back  to  the  Arizona  skies  since  long  before 
Man  began  to  infest  the  planet  and  boggle 
over  its  geologies.  But  we  need  the  Forest. 
It  ought  to  be  made  Compulsory! 

AZTEC  RUINS  AND  HIEROGLYPHICS 
Occasional  ruins  of  prehistoric  Indian 
settlements  are  encountered  in  the  Petrified 
Forest  region.  Some  comprise  a  solitary 
habitation  only.  Others  show  that  several 
families  were  housed  together.  A  few  indicate 
the  presence  of  villages  numbering  many 
inhabitants. 


Prehistoric  Cliff  Dwelling* 


About  a  mile  from  the  petrified  bridge 
may  be  seen  the  crumbling  ruins  of  a  small 
pueblo,  with  its  plaza  surrounded  by  houses 
averaging  ten  feet  square  and  a  tiny  grave- 
yard. The  walls  fell  long  ago,  but  their 
position  easily  can  be  determined. 

In  the  North  Forest,  on  the  edge  of  the 
Painted  Desert,  are  the  ruins  of  a  dwelling 
built  of  fragments  of  petrified  wood;  a 
similar  deserted  edifice  is  found  in  the  Third 
Forest,  eighteen  miles  distant. 

The  largest  of  these  homes  of  the  ancients 
is  called  the  Aztec  Ruins  and  Hieroglyphics. 
It  lies  two  and  a  half  miles  east  of  Adamana. 
Here  are  walls  of  broken  stone  and  mortar 
about  a  foot  high,  which  mark  numerous 
dwellings  fronting  a  plaza  130  feet  wide  by 
210  feet  long.  Near  the  plaza's  center  a 
small  kiva  has  been  discovered,  similar  to 
those  in  use  by  the  Pueblo  Indians  of  to-day. 
The  flagstone  pavement  of  this  old  kiva  is 
in  a  good  state  of  preservation. 

The  Hieroglyphics  are  near  by.  They 
are  cut  in  the  stones  of  the  cliff  for  a  mile 
or  more.  The  "cutting,"  however,  seems  to 
have  been  done  by  pecking  the  smooth  rock 
surface  with  some  harder  stone  like  petrified 
wood,  rather  than  with  a  metallic  instrument. 

The  symbols  in  the  first  group,  and  in 
many  following,  are  conventional  and  not 
easy  to  decipher.  Further  on,  in  a  recess 
of  the  cliff,  is  a  large  upright  rock  slab  on 


Important  Notice  to  Visitor* 


which  are  shown  a  lone  man,  a  bird  and  an 
animal.  The  next  record  of  interest  is 
perhaps  that  of  a  royal  wedding.  The  figures 
are  dancing  and  rejoicing,  while  a  priest 
holds  in  one  hand  a  rod  and  in  the  other 
the  bird  of  wisdom. 

Almost  at  the  top  of  the  mesa,  and  not 
far  from  the  Aztec  Ruins,  may  be  seen 
hieroglyphics  of  flocks  and  herds,  with 
symbols  of  disaster  and  increase. 

IMPORTANT  NOTICE 
The  three  forests  south  of  the  railroad  are 
a  National  Monument,  created  by  Executive 
Act  of  December  8,  1906,  and  under  control 
of  the  Department  of  the  Interior.  Within 
the  boundaries  of  this  monument  are  situated 
the  most  important  deposits,  which  are 
thereby  protected  from  spoliation  and  kept 
intact  for  the  enjoyment  of  visitors. 

A  heavy  penalty  (fine  or  imprisonment,  or 
both)  is  imposed  for  injuring,  destroying  or 
appropriating  petrified  wood  and  other 
objects  of  antiquity  in  this  area.  The  only 
exception  is  in  the  case  of  persons  representing 
certain  educational  institutions  and  museums, 
and  then  only  under  a  special  permit, 
restricting  operations  to  limited  areas  termed 
"collecting  grounds." 

Fortunately,  there  is  abundant  material 
outside  the  National  Monument  which 
visitors  may  take  at  will. 


Good  Bye,    and    Come  Again! 


Cliff  Dwelling!  near    Holbrook 


ADVERTISEMENT 

The  Petrified  Forest  is  reached  only  via 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railway 
System. 

It  may  be  visited  either  as  a  separate  trip 
or  in  connection  with  the  Grand  Canyon  and 
California  tours,  for  which  latter  round-trip 
excursion  tickets  are  on  sale  at  reduced  fares 
every  day  in  the  year. 

All  who  have  seen  the  Petrified  Forest 
say  it  is  well  worth  visiting.  Many  travelers 
esteem  it  one  of  the  greatest  of  Arizona's 
wonders.  The  trip  is  recommended  as  a 
unique  experience. 

W.  J.  BLACK 

Pa.aenger  Tr.ffic  Manager.  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry. 
CHICAGO 

JOHN  J.  BYRNE 

Aa.istant  Passenger  Traffic  Manager,  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry. 
LOS  ANGELES 

J.  M.  CONNELL 

General  Passenger  Agent.  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry. 
TOPEKA 

W.  S.  KEENAN 

General  Pa.senger  Agent.  G.  C.  &  S.  F.  Ry. 
GALVESTON 

F.  P.  CRUICE 

A.st.  Gen'1  Pass'r  Agent.  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry.— Coast  Lmes- 

S.  F.  P.  &  P.  Lines  and  G-and  Canyon  Ry. 

PRESCOTT 

J.  BRINKER 

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